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The question that haunts the federal inquiry into Maher Arar's torture nightmare in Syria is whether Canada was behind it all. Did Canadian officials make it known to the United States that everyone would be better off if Mr. Arar, a citizen of Canada, were dispatched to his Syrian birthplace rather than sent back home to Ottawa? Paul Cellucci, then the U.S. ambassador to Canada, was unequivocal in a letter he wrote to this newspaper, published last Canada Day, correcting what he said was an error in an editorial. "I have never said or implied that 'Canadian security officials gave...

Beware bully Bush! Axworthy warns of 'naked self-interest' of American president By CP TORONTO -- Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy has written a new book that portrays U.S. President George Bush as an extreme radical leader whose approach to world affairs is based on "military dominance and naked self-interest." In the 430-page book, to be released this fall, Axworthy says the Bush administration is dominated by overzealous Christians, blasts U.S. ambassador Paul Celluci for hectoring Canadians over the Iraq war and accuses the Chretien government of capitulating to Americans by entering negotiations on ballistic missile defence, a news service...